Material

Specialist Information and Catalogues

• MENALIB: Specialised Information Service Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies (University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt, funded by the DFG): literature search, document supply and digital collections
• Qalamos: Portal for manuscripts and block prints from Asian and African script traditions held in German collections, offering catalogue data and digital copies for some 120,000 objects (led by the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library)

Digital Resources

• Al-Manhal: Database of Arabic-language e-books and academic journals (subscription-based; access usually through university libraries)
• Warraq: Online platform of the National Library of Israel with around 2,500 digitised Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts
• Jarāʾid: A chronology of nineteenth-century Arabic periodicals (1800–1900), a research tool of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
• Al-Sharekh Archive: Freely accessible archive of Arabic literary and cultural magazines from the 19th and 20th centuries, including al-Muqtaṭaf and al-Mašriq

German-Language Publication Series (Selection)

• ALEA – Arabische Literatur und Rhetorik, Elfhundert bis Achtzehnhundert (Arabic Literature and Rhetoric, 1100–1800): edited by Thomas Bauer and Syrinx von Hees (Ergon)
• Literaturen im Kontext: Arabisch – Persisch – Türkisch (Literatures in Context: Arabic – Persian – Turkish) (Reichert)

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